Rising Stars, Falling Stars - April 2015 - Vaginal Davis - BUGSY MALONE & a Soiree Extraordinaire by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud
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Went to a new bookstore called Topics at Weser Strasse 166 to see
Travis Jeppesen read from All Fall which contains two novellas by the lovehexy
power top suprema Mr. Jeppesen and is the sixth book in Publication Studio's
Fellow Travelers Series. Travis read
from "Written in the Sky" a harrowing plane crashing in slow motion tale. It was
written on a red-eye flight from Beijing to Vienna in the fall of 2012. I loved how young Travis created extra tension
during his reading by expertly removing himself from the room to a far off
secret garden of his own creation. The
boy has mad max alchemic writing skills but few knew of his teleportation
abilities. Of course I was at the venue early forgetting that anything
involving young people these days never starts on time. The Topics bookstore has an odd vibe to it
but that is probably more to my being a woman of a certain age and not usually
in the company of this new Berlin ilk of men with unbecoming facial hair. Adore Travis but next time I have to hear him
read someplace with more comfortable seating.
Earlier when I was riding around on by bicycleta looking for the
bookstore I stopped at a tiny park to see a boy who looked no older then 12
macking with a girl who looked like she was ten. The boy was being very aggressive with the
girl who I was glad slapped him and retreated in a huff. An elderly couple came by and also witnessed
the scene and the older gentleman took the boy aside and gave him a highfive
and told him to run after the girl sort of saying, “Squirrel climb up that tree
and get your gnut!” Repugnant.
Spring Aquakening is definitely in the air as I rode by the Skate
Anlage Im Parkham Gleisdrieick to joyously oogle a quintet of immaculate shirtless
skater rats and under the Ubahn bridge a gaggle of tight bodied male gymnasts
attracting a lot of attention with the spectacle that comes with young muscular
bodies. Could barely tear myself away
but remembered I was luncheoning with her royal highness Empress Stefanie Schulte
Strathaus of Arsenal Institute fur
filmundvideo Kunst at Osteria No. 1 on the Mehringdamn corridor. Their backyard patio was under construction
but its so huge there was still room to sit alfresco and enjoy the warm golden
rays and delicious food in the form of lasagne, tortellini, funicello salad,
tomata soup all washed down with the most perfect carafe of Rose’ vino. Was wonderful hearing about La Schulte
Strathaus’ travels throughout India with Marcuse Siegelstein and Susanne
Sachsse presenting a fab experimental film program. The other evening I was at the Tiergarten
compound of Piero Bellomo the Italio/German husband of Scandinavian Muslim
Daniel Hendrickson for an Enchilada Party.
Piero brought back some freshly made corn tortillas from South Florida
so when life gives you corn tortillas you have to make enchiladas. A few nights before the Mexican feast
Fearless Leader of kollektiv CHEAP Susanne Sachsse hosted a Spargel Fruhlings
dinner for the great scholar and genius
writer Douglas Crimp who is the most serene man on the planet also the best
dressed.
Read in a local German newspaper that Frank Castorf the veteran
Intendant(artistic director) at the Volksbuehne is getting the boot to be
replaced by Belgian curator Chris Dercon from the Tate Modern. This move seems to be orchestrated by the
music laden culture politician Tim Renner, of course I could be mistaken as my
reading skills in German are limited, but having an art curator head a theatre
doesn’t seem like a particularly good idea to me and not for conservative
reasons that I am sure the usual suspects are rattling on about as they tend to
do in Berlin.